Soap magazine for washboards



F. W. LEHIIERT.

SOAP MAGAZINE FOR WASHEOARDS.

APPLICATION FILFD 1un'29. 1921.

1,481,82 Patented Oct. 10, 1922.

I mfzrmj Patented Oct. 10, 1922.

FRIEDRICH W. LEHNERT, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT,

. SOAP MAGAZINE FOR WASHBOARDS.

Application filed July 29, 1921.

To all whom it may comm/a- Be it known that Finnnineu \V. lJl'lllXl'Ill'l, a citizen, of the United States of America, residing at New llaven. in tlldt'tilillt) of New Haven and State of Connecticut, has invented new and useful Improvements in Soap Magazines for Washboards, of whieh the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to pro vide a simple and efficient means for supporting and holding bar soap in position to bereadily accessible in the rubbing of clothes upon a washboard surfaee under conditions tending to eeonomize in the use of the soap by preventing the exeessi've moistening and softening thereof and to provide means for eonnet'tion therewith whereby the exposed surt'aee-ot' the bar may be adjusted to mainta n the same in operative relation with the rubbing surfaee of the board as the soap s used or worn away by the eontaet ot' the fabries therewith: and also to provide simple and ellieient means whereby the magazine provided for the reeeptioirol' the soap bar may readily be. recharged; and with these objeets in view the invention eonsists in a eonstrm-tion aml combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the aeeompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a front view. and

Figure 2 is a side view'of a washboard eonstrurted in aeeordanee with the invention.

Figure 3 is a vertieal seetional view of the same.

Figure -l is a transverse seetion on the Serial No. 488,369.

ing a phmger 1! preferably spring aetnated as indieated at if) to etleet the advance of the soap as the suifat'e or exposed portion thereof is used.

it is designed that the.- soap bars shall be held in sueh a way as to be arranged with their exposed surfaees substantially in the plane otthe rubbing surt'aee ot' the board. and therefore to limit the forward movement of the bars the outlet or mouth ot the magazine eonnnunieating with the slot. in the fate of the board is eontraeted vertieally by providing the same with l'orwardly eon vergent upper and lower walls It; which in the plane ot' the slot or opening are spaced at an interval somewhat less than the width of the soap bars, and in applying the soap bars \\'lllt'll may be introdueed into the magazine through an end opening normally elosed b a hinged (over 17 fitted with a lateh l8 the forward edges of the bars are preferably redueed or tapered by shaving the small por tion of the surtaees thereof to give the bars near their forward surfaees a somewhat tapered eross'sta'tional eontour as indieated in Figure 3.

Extending rearwardly from the follower are the feed serews 1t). and guide rods 11H extending through suitable openings in the rear wall of the magazine, the feed serews being engaged by thumb nuts 21 as to limit the ttlitltllt) of the springs to advanee the plunger and thus unneeessarily expose the forward surfaees of the soap bars. ()bviously by gradually unserewiug the leed nuts the plunger may be permitted to advanee to eompensate for the waste or use of the soap at its front sulffaee. t

it will also he understood that a single bar of soap of a length eorresi'mnding with the feed opening may be employed, where the soap is reeeived by the ronslmier in sulli eient. lengths to provide for that use all though a pluriility of bars of the ordinary eominert-ial si'/.e.mav be introdueed as indirated in the drawing to oeeupy the full length f the feed slot or opening.

l'laviug des l'ihed the invention, whatis elaimed as new and useful is i A washhoard having a transverse soap receiving slot raised above its rubbing surface, a magazine carried by the washboard in communication with said slot or opening and adapted to contain soap bars for exposure at their front surfaces in said slot or opening, and means for advancing the soap bars as the front surfaces thereof are removed by use, the upper and lower Walls of the magazine being disposed in a forwardly convergent relation to graduate the forward feeding movement of the soap.

In testimony whereof he affixes his signature.

FRIEDRICH W. LEHNERT. 

